Quotes About Happiness

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

One smile is more effective than a thousand shouts

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

The implication was that a cure might be the mental equivalent of amputating a healthy limb. Some patients seemed to need nothing but encouragement to regain their health. As one of Krafft-Ebing's early patients exclaimed: 'Ever since I gave free rein to my Uranian nature, I have been happier, healthier and more productive!

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Don't always try to understand everything...some things will just never make sense; when you are happy smile, when you are sad, cry but always tune into that best part of yourself where the music "waits"...it will never disappoint you...only the "savvy strutters" know this to be true.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht. That was, until she smiled. When she smiled, her eyes lit up like a pinball machine when you win a bonus game. And she smiled a lot.

I am persuaded from long years of experience amongst women of many nationalities that good midwifery is essential for the true happiness of motherhood – that good midwifery is the birth of a baby in a manner nearest to the natural law and design – and good midwifery, next to wise and healthy pregnancy, sets the pattern of the newborn infant and its relationship to its mother.

My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me.

the more a Christian intentionally cultivates the joy of God in daily life, the more deeply embedded the joy of God will become in American civilization, through him.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

Whoo! Heidi! Little goat girl, you are kicking the jam. You've got my lederhosen in a situation.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Ignorance is bliss," Travers said. "Yes. Very appropriate cliché.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Another irony is that the achievement of mass affluence in much of the world--the decline in child mortality, the extension of adult life spans, and the reduction in inequality--have not made us any happier than our hunter-gatherer forebears.

That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,